Alexander String Quartet Performs Shostakovich, Beethoven, More

Berkeley Chamber Performances welcomes back the Alexander String Quartet. Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, the San Francisco-based ASQ has performed the world over, including shows at New York's Lincoln Center and across Europe, and been hailed by the likes of the New York Times as being "vibrant, probing, assured." For this Berkeley City Club engagement, the quartet of Zakarias Grafilo (violin), Frederick Lifsitz, (violin), Paul Yarbrough (viola) and Sandy Wilson (cello) will perform works by Shostakovich (String Quartet No.4 and Preludes & Fugues Op. 87, arranged by Z. Grafilo), Beethoven (String Quartet Op. 95 "Serioso") and Janácek (String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata").

Reviews & Ratings

Fantastic chamber music from true experienced and talented professionals. Excellent evening of amazing music in the lovely Julia Morgan Berkeley City Club. Only problem was that the room was too warm and seats too hard.....advise that you bring a cushion from home. Great reception afterwards.

This is a class act. Superb players, this time performing an unusual program. I'm not a major fan of 20th Century composers, but I'm really glad I attended. Their original adaptation for string quartet of Shostakovich's Preludes & Fugues was...continued

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Berkeley Chamber Performances is a nonprofit presenting organization for chamber music in the East Bay. Founded in 1993, it presents mostly, but not exclusively, local ensembles and attempts to press the boundaries of "chamber music" by including in each five-concert season jazz, ethnic, multi-disciplinary, commissioned or first performance presentations. Concerts take place Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m. in the historic Berkeley City Club. Following each performance audience members can attend our Meet-the-Performers reception to connect with the artists. Berkeley Chamber Performances loves expanding its audience to those generally not attending chamber music concerts.